I suppose it’s pointless to wonder why the Left never demonizes its own millionaires/billionaires. A rich Democrat is always a “philanthropist”; a rich Republican—even a middle-income one—is always a “greedy capitalist.”

So Rockefeller’s “robber baron” lineage notwithstanding, he’ll still retire a hero of the Left. Just like it didn’t matter that his WV colleague was actually an officer of the KKK.

10 posted on 01/11/2013 9:10:56 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
(Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)